Nvidia Geforce 'Maxwell' Thread

[Ayahuasca]

Not to forget it will have more useable VRAM too, unless you're rocking 4gb 670's.

 

[Boomstick777]

All these posts about people selling their primary cards before the launch of an unknown product and I am just sitting here with a gtx 660 and 680 that I have had to sell for over a year.

Props to those willing to take that risk and sacrifice. I'll just "wait and see"

I only sold my card for financial need, if I hadn't needed the money I would have kept it, Titan Black was best card I've used but ridiculously expensive Hopefully by the time the GTX 880 and whatever AMD put out next I'll have the funds to grab one.

 

[Jono8]

Not to forget it will have more useable VRAM too, unless you're rocking 4gb 670's.

Indeed. Although I only play 1080p so 2gb vram hasn't really affected me yet. No doubt it will by next year though.

 

[stooeh]

I'm still using my SLI GTX 580s with 1.5GB VRAM at 1440p

Hoping for good price/performance on SLI 870s...

 

[MooMoo444]

I'm still using my SLI GTX 580s with 1.5GB VRAM at 1440p

Hoping for good price/performance on SLI 870s...

Unless your primary game of choice is minecraft, hows the slowdown working out?

 

[dangel]

Unless your primary game of choice is minecraft, hows the slowdown working out?

Cruel - and not really true. Not every game pushes that much VRAM

That said the new consoles (and lazy development) mean that I want more than 2gb and soon!

 

[Disco_P]

I only sold my card for financial need, if I hadn't needed the money I would have kept it, Titan Black was best card I've used but ridiculously expensive Hopefully by the time the GTX 880 and whatever AMD put out next I'll have the funds to grab one.

That is super crappy. Good luck acquiring the funds - no doubt that a bunch of other cards will come down in price on maxwell launch.

 

[stooeh]

Unless your primary game of choice is minecraft, hows the slowdown working out?

Hah!

Well FXAA is the best AA I can get away with on anything remotely recent. Plenty of older stuff runs fine though

 

[Wizzfizz]

I'm actually using no dedicated GPU at the moment, haven't done for 3 months. I'm gonna hold out til whenever. That said, the games I do play Quake 3/4, I'm still owning

 

[Boomstick777]

That is super crappy. Good luck acquiring the funds - no doubt that a bunch of other cards will come down in price on maxwell launch.

Picked up an MSI 780 Ti for a build, ended up liking it so much I got one for myself Bit naughty but couldn't resist, this card is a monster. Hopefully last me until 20nm... Oh the hardware addiction is strong

 

[carrot1401]

Picked up an MSI 780 Ti for a build, ended up liking it so much I got one for myself Bit naughty but couldn't resist, this card is a monster. Hopefully last me until 20nm... Oh the hardware addiction is strong

I'm starting to struggle to wait for 8 series....those 780ti's are shiny!

EDIT: Got a small m-ATX case though, can't decide between the KFA2 blower, or the extra £50 for the Asus ROG! Hell I need to check they'd physically fit!

 

[triss]

Picked up an MSI 780 Ti for a build, ended up liking it so much I got one for myself Bit naughty but couldn't resist, this card is a monster. Hopefully last me until 20nm... Oh the hardware addiction is strong

You need a revolving door on your case boom for how often you swap hardware
Grats on the new toy

 

[Boomstick777]

You need a revolving door on your case boom for how often you swap hardware
Grats on the new toy

I need some kind of AA meetings for hardware addiction

I literally can't resist a good deal on a shiny piece of hardware.. I think I may have a problem

No doubt I'll grab whatever AMD and Nvidia put out next as well

I'm starting to struggle to wait for 8 series....those 780ti's are shiny!

EDIT: Got a small m-ATX case though, can't decide between the KFA2 blower, or the extra £50 for the Asus ROG! Hell I need to check they'd physically fit!

Yeah the 780 Ti's have come down in price to the point where they are good performance for the money. Hard to resist. If you're thinking of two cards go with a blower, otherwise dual fans is really nice, can't hear this card even clocked at 1200mhz+.

 

[carrot1401]

Yeah the 780 Ti's have come down in price to the point where they are good performance for the money. Hard to resist. If you're thinking of two cards go with a blower, otherwise dual fans is really nice, can't hear this card even clocked at 1200mhz+.

I don't have space for 2 cards. And like I said, need to get an idea of the length of the thing!

 

[Boomstick777]

I don't have space for 2 cards. And like I said, need to get an idea of the length of the thing!

What case do you have?

 

[carrot1401]

Aerocool Dead Silence, but using bottom pci slot in my x79 extreme4-m for sound card!

 

[Boomstick777]

Aerocool Dead Silence, but using bottom pci slot in my x79 extreme4-m for sound card!

Yeah if you can move the sound card you should be fine with a 780 Ti. Maybe get a different sound card so can use different slot?

 

[carrot1401]

The width isn't a problem, I have 3 "slots" of space, it's the length of any card I have to worry about

 

[Boomstick777]

The width isn't a problem, I have 3 "slots" of space, it's the length of any card I have to worry about

Yeah looking at some pics, if the card is in the bottom slot the length wouldn't be a problem?

 

[FoxEye]

Soooo, as we all mostly expected the R9 285 is a bit of a non-event. The ball is firmly in nVidia's court now.

Should we be more optimistic for mid & high end Maxwell? Some have said nV won't be able to achieve the same power consumption gains with the bigger Maxwells as they did with the 750, but I'm not clued up enough to know why.

If the 860 is as disappointing as the 285, I will be writing to Imagination Tech to ask them to start making PC GFX cards again But I'm hoping the 860 will kick all kinds of arse with good power efficiency to boot. Not too much to ask is it?